DHAKA: Petter-B. Furberg (49) has been appointed as the interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Grameenphone. The Grameenphone Board of Directors appointed him which will be effective from November 1. Furberg will replace Rajeev Sethi who will pursue new opportunities, said a press

DHAKA: Digital World 2016, a three-day mega ICT event of Bangladesh, has begun at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital of Bangladesh from Wednesday (October 19). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the mega event around 12:00 pm that began with the

DHAKA: The activities of most awaited “Dot Bangla” domain will be kicked off from country’s victory day that falls on December 16. It will take Bangla language in a new height in the world. Posts and Telecommunications state minister Tarana Halim expressed the hope making the

DHAKA: An airline flight ban on Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is spreading fast after reports some phones have caught fire. Carriers in Australia, Asia and Europe put the phone on a prohibited list over the weekend, which comes after the US banned the device last week, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: The fourth Digital World-2016 exposition will begin at International Convention City Bashundhara in city on October 19 with the slogan of NonStopBangladesh. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the event while her ICT advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy will present keynote paper.

DHAKA: Robi congratulated Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) chairman Dr. Shahjahan Mahmood on being elected as the chairman of South Asian Telecommunications Regulators’ Council (SATRC). A press release said on Tuesday (October 11) that Robi’s chief

DHAKA: Robi Axiata Limited on Tuesday (October 11) announced that they will offer iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus as part of the telecom organization’s better customer service. In a press release, Robi said that customers can pre-order the most advanced iPhone ever with water and dust

DHAKA: Samsung issued an alert to customers asking users to immediately turn off their Galaxy Note 7 smart phones which have been spontaneously catching fire. The unprecedented move comes on Monday (October 11) one day after Samsung halted production of the dangerously glitch devices,

DHAKA: Samsung’s smartphone recall crisis has deepened after South Korean media said the tech giant had suspended production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7 model amid reports that replacement devices had caught fire. Citing an unnamed source at a Samsung supplier, the news agency

DHAKA: A second replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device, deemed safe by the company, has caught fire in the US. Samsung has been forced to issue new models of the smartphone following complaints of faulty batteries. A man in Kentucky said he was “scared to death” when he woke

DHAKA: Information and Communication Technology state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak said that around 6.50-crore or 40 percent people of the country use internet service. The state minister made the disclosure while delivering speech as chief guest in APC Asia Regional Meeting 2016 in

DHAKA: Yahoo scanned its users’ incoming emails for an unusual string of characters that had been linked to a terrorist organization, according to a fresh report about the matter. The New York Times says flagged messages were made available to the FBI, but the scans have now stopped.

DHAKA: MobiReach, the pioneering mobile advertising platform in Bangladesh, is going to showcase its services in the upcoming Digital Marketing Summit. The summit is scheduled to be held at Hotel Le Meridien in Dhaka on Saturday (October 8) organized by Bangladesh Brand Forum. The

DHAKA: Samsung has stepped up its focus on artificial intelligence (AI) by taking over Viv, a digital assistant developed by the maker of Apple’s Siri. The acquisition comes just days after Google launched its new Pixel phone which also puts a strong focus on an AI digital assistance

DHAKA: Information and Communication division of Bangladesh and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand signed a Framework accord on Wednesday evening with the view to work jointly in the sectors of e-governance, cyber security and IT development. The accord was signed

DHAKA: WowBox, the number one lifestyle application of the country, has reached five million users making it the most downloaded digital application in Bangladesh. Launched in May 2015, WowBox has attracted youths through its unique offering of highly contemporary content, exciting

DHAKA: Bangladesh got an approval from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to open internet domains with .bangla (dot bangle). ICANN is a non-profit organization responsible for the global coordination of the Internet’s unique identifier. Posts and

DHAKA: Next spring Rosatom will bring online Europe’s largest data center near the city of Tver of Russia. The data center is constructed near the Kalinin nuclear power plant in Russia’s Tver Region. The active project phase began in February this year. Proximity to the nuclear

DHAKA: Google has placed a virtual assistant at the heart of its latest smartphones and first voice-activated speaker. The two Pixel handsets are the first mobiles to trigger Google Assistant by pressing their home buttons, somewhat like Apple’s Siri, reports the BBC. The Home

DHAKA: Yahoo secretly scanned millions of its users’ email accounts on behalf of the US government, according to a report. Media say the firm built special software last year to comply with a classified request. “Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the